Syracuse residents can expect white Christmas this year

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Despite the lack of snow so far this season, Syracusans can expect to see a white Christmas.

“I think there’s a pretty good chance there will be a white Christmas,” said Mitch Gilt, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in Binghamton.

The weather service is predicting 3 or 4 inches of lake-effect snow starting Friday
night and running through Saturday into early Sunday morning. The snow will stop for about 36 hours, but the temperatures won’t rise above freezing Saturday, Sunday or Monday, and will drop into the teens Monday night, the weather service says.

“It’s not going to be warm enough to melt,” Gilt said.

Another half to 1 inch of snow is predicted to fall Monday night, which is Christmas Eve.